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  • PUERITIA
    Lat In the civil law. Childhood; the age from seven to fourteen. 4 Bl. Comm. 22.
  • PUFFER
    A person employed by the owner of -property which is sold at auction to attend the sale and run up the price by making spurious bids. See Peck v. List 23 W> Va. 375, 48 Am. Rep. 398; McMillan v. Harris, 110 Ga. 72, 35 S. E. 334, 48 L. More...
  • PUIS
    In law French. Afterwards; since. -Puis darrein oontinnanoe. Since the last continuance. The name of a plea which a defendant is allowed to put in, after having already pleaded, where some new matter of defense arises after issue joined; such as payment, a release by the plaintiff, the discharge of More...
  • PUISNE
    L. Fr. Younger; subordinate 5 associate. The title by which the justices and barons of the several common-law courts at Westminster are distinguished from the chief jus-' tlce and chief baron.
  • PUISSANCE PATERNELLE
    Fr. Paternal power. In the French law, the male parent has the following rights over the person of his child: (1) If child is under sixteen years of age, he may procure him to be imprisoned for one month or under. (2) If child is over sixteen and under twenty-one More...
  • PULSARE
    Lat In the civil law. To beat; to accuse or charge; to proceed against at law. Calvin.
  • PULSATOR
    The plaintiff, or actor.
  • PUNCTUATION
    The division of a written or printed document into sentences by means of periods; and of sentences into smaller divisions by means of commas, semicolons, colons, etc.
  • PUNCTUM TEMPORIS
    Lat. A point of time; an indivisible period of time; the shortest space of time; an instant Calvin.
  • PUNCTURED WOUND
    In medical jurisprudence. A wound made by the insertion into the body of any instrument having a sharp point The term is practically synonymous with "stab."
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